Teaching Associate (Based in Skardu), Institute for Educational Development

Teaching Associate (Based in Skardu), Institute for Educational Development

Organization: Aga Khan UniversityIntroductionThe Aga Khan University is a private, international university committed to international standards of excellence in teaching, research, and service. Its teaching hospital, the Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission International for achieving the highest international healthcare standards.

Aga Khan University - Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) was established in July 1993 with the overall objective of becoming a leader in educational reform and improvement, especially in developing countries. The aim of the Institute is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of schools and other educational institutions in the country through innovation, policy development, practice, training and research. 

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.

ResponsibilitiesThe purpose of this Teaching Associate job is to assist in a project being done by AKU-IED in collaboration with AKU-Human Development P, AKDN and the government in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. The Teaching Associate will help the project team by: training ECD lead facilitators, government officials and program managers / administrators; building course content; developing lesson plans and presentations; organizing online and physical classrooms; carrying out literature review; adapting; contextualizing and translating teaching-learning materials; field visits for on-site mentoring, monitoring, and data collection, developing data collection tools; data collection; data analysis; data transcription and entry; and report writing. The job requires provision of administrative support for scheduling meetings; training sessions; data collection visits; field visits; maintaining inventory of materials and data; and assisting the project team during training sessions.You will be responsible for:

• assisting the Project Team with teaching, developing course plans, preparing course presentations and preparing teaching-learning resources, record keeping and attendance, providing constructive feedback to training course participants
• assisting the Project Team to create, adapt, write, translate, and design teaching-learning materials, manuals, guidebooks, and project reports
• assisting the Project Team with reviews of literature and education resources for project activities
• providing management support to the PI in planning, implementing and monitoring of all project activities providing administrative support for arrangement of meetings, training sessions, data collection, field visits, purchasing materials, maintaining material inventory, etc.
• coordinating with the project team and course participants for project related activities 
• providing support to the Co-PI for various arrangements and documentation pertaining to project 
• developing, managing and maintaining project documents 
• managing and keep records of reference materials used for projects 
• data collection, analysis, transcription and data entry
• attending project team meetings and respond to correspondence.

RequirementsYou should have:

• at least an undergraduate degree, preferably Masters in education from an HEC recognized university
• Certificate, Advanced Diploma in early child development, early childhood education
• professional experience in early child development, early childhood education 
• academic and/or work experience with early childhood teaching, curriculum development, material development, translation
• experience of conducting teaching and meetings over videoconferencing platforms like Zoom
• understanding of early child development and learning, and use this understanding to provide evidence-based,
• contextual knowledge of relevant planning, instruction, and assessment in diverse early learning settings 
• ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in Urdu and English 
• good planning, time management and organizational skills 
• ability to coordinate and assist with administrative tasks
• proficiency in use of related computer software applications 
• good conceptual and analytical skills 
• understand geographies where the project activities will be carried out 
• willingness to travel in all seasons to challenging areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.